Thank you. She has a good post coming soon, and I plan to write something on the same subject.

I always have a million subjects and ideas in my mind but never the time to devote to them. I do hope to resume blogging more regularly very soon. Since it is raining today I'll be more confined to the house and able to post. Be sure and go read Lillibeth's recent post, everyone. www.thepleasanttimes.blogspot.com You can comment here if you like, since she doesn't have comments on her blog.

The article on your daughter’s blog is the type of article that is so helpful to young women, as well as those of my age (over 21 by a few decades). I think far to few people even think of the idea of preparation for just about anything, and so many life situations (especially marriage) in my view need to be taken a little more serious especially in the area of preparation. I am saddened by the number of divorces I keep hearing about. While my own daughters don’t sew, or knit they both know how. They also know a little about meal planning and some things about home management as well as a little about home decorating. There are many things in homemaking that I never considered until getting the internet and finding blogs, especially those blogs similar to your own. For one, I never thought of what few things could I have in our home to deepen the pantry. I have learned many useful crafting and sewing ideas through you and your daughter. Like many others, I like to print the articles off to read them without having to be on the computer. I too look forward to your new postings. I find that many of your postings fill-in for what I did not learn in my youth, either at home or at school, or even at church By the way have you or any of your friends been conducting homemaking classes or conducting finishing schools.

Since the recent royal weddings I am also interested in seeing what ideas you might have for decorating a wedding or reception especially since so many of your ideas are frugal without looking cheap. Also have you ever hosted a tea (or other event) for young girls (say fifth to tenth graders) teaching them about weddings and perhaps preparing a hope chest? And does the young girl still come to your home for sewing lessons?

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" So far as this world knows or can vision, there is no attainment more desirable than the happy and contented home."

This is a Proverbs 31 and Titus 2 teaching blog, where you will find some ideas for creating the kind of home life that gives you a sense of well-being, creativity and accomplishment. It will help you understand the reasons for being the Biblical keepers of the home, as opposed to the world's answer of being career women outside of the home.

I really hope to help restore the culture of the home, which is a never-changing precept of the Bible: marriage, home and family. Young women especially need to know there is something else of greater importance than college and career, and that they play a vital role in making a stable family. In order to have strong marriages, respectful children, and good churches, women need to return to the home. My blog is based on the precept of First Timothy 5, verse 14:

"I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully..."

These articles are designed to give the homemaker ideas for doing an excellent job in the home and for enjoying the role of homemaker and guide of the house. Marriage, the family and home life is splintered. Women must be allowed to return to the home.

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The Queen's Ire

England's Queen Victoria wrote in 1870, "I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings, and would surely perish without male protection."-- Queen Victoria, 1870.

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Don't above all things, forget you are a woman; she is far more attractive when seen in the flowing draperies that centuries of use have made their own, than when masquerading as a man."--author unknown, written approximately 1850.

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"Why do women want to dress like men when they’re fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I’m very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don’t want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error…" ~Tasha Tudor

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ~Jane Austen

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life. ~Kathleen Norris